Proust on memory

22Aug10

“The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. And besides, a fresh reality will perhaps [...]

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Proust on language

01Aug10

“…one has a barrier between oneself and the rest of the world the barrier of a strange language.”

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